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This innovative edited collection uncovers the invisible frames which form our understanding of international law. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it investigates how social cognition and knowledge production processes affect decision-making, and inform unquestioned beliefs about what international law is, and how it works.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Section I. Social Cognition: Foregrounding Information Processing and Recontextualizing International Law
- 1: Moshe Hirsch: Social Cognitive Studies, Sociological Theory, and International Law
- 2: Anne van Aaken and Jan-Philip Elm: Framing in and Through Public International Law
- 3: Ingo Venzke: Cognitive Biases and International Law: What's the Point of Critique?
- 4: Jacob Livingston Slosser and5 Mikael Rask Madsen: Institutionally Embodied Law: Cognitive Linguistics and the Making of International Law
- 5: Tomer Broude: Prosociality, International Law, and Humanitarian Intervention
- 6: Jean d'Aspremont: A Worldly Law in a Legal World
- 7: Shiri Krebs: The Invisible Frames Affecting Wartime Investigations: Legal Epistemology, Metaphors, and Cognitive Biases
- 8: Margherita Melillo: Labels as the Visible Part of International Law's Invisible Frames: The Case of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control as an 'Evidence-Based' Treaty
- Section II. Making Knowledge Production Visible: Structures, Actors, and Processes
- 9: Andrea Bianchi: Knowledge Production in International Law: Forces and Processes
- 10: Akbar Rasulov: The Discipline as a Field of Struggle: The Politics and Economics of Knowledge Production in International Law
- 11: Jan Klabbers: Reflections on the ITU: International Organizations as Epistemic Structures
- 12: Harlan Grant Cohen: Metaphors of International Law
- 13: Matthew Windsor: Counterstorytelling in International Economic Law
- 14: Eyal Benvenisti and Doreen Lustig: Revisiting the Memory of Solferino: Knowledge Production and the Laws of War
- 15: Tamar Megiddo: Knowledge Production, Big Data, and Data-Driven Customary International Law
- 16: Ana Luísa Bernardino: Going by the Book - What International Law Textbooks Teach Us Not To Learn
About the author
Andrea Bianchi is Full Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Previously, he was Full Professor at the Catholic University in Milan; Associate Professor at the University of Parma, and Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Centre. His publications address topics that range from international legal theory and treaty interpretation, human rights and international humanitarian law, terrorism and counterterrorism, to the law of jurisdiction and jurisdictional immunities, state responsibility, non-state actors, and the law of treaties.
Moshe Hirsch is the Von Hofmannsthal Chair in International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in international economic law and international legal theory, with a particular emphasis on the sociology of international law. A significant part of his work involves interdisciplinary research that employs sociological theories, game theory, political economy, and international relations theory.
Summary
This innovative edited collection uncovers the invisible frames which form our understanding of international law. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it investigates how social cognition and knowledge production processes affect decision-making, and inform unquestioned beliefs about what international law is, and how it works.
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The encounter and the confrontation that lie at the core of the book -or, if you prefer, the invisible frames that tie together these contributions by these international lawyers- constitute one of the most fascinating aspects of the book's hydrography.
